Podtacular

Last month, we had our discussion on Halo: Smoke and Shadow and we’re discussing the sequel, Halo: Renegades in this episode. We’ve also got the latest news around Halo 2 Anniversary flighting on PC to discuss, last week’s community spotlight and of course, your regular update on community happenings!

Dust Storm and Godzilla T here again with just ourselves for another couple of week’s wrapping up the community projects we didn’t cover last week and our latest community poll. We’re currently looking at who our next guests should be so reach out to us with any recommendations on who you would love to hear from. As always, we give you the latest official and community updates.

No guests with us this week as we take time to do a little checkup on fan projects in the works within the Halo community. We had a chance to go through most of them and will pick up more on our next episode. We also had a new community poll where we asked you listeners what their favorite Halo soundtrack is. We are looking for suggestions on who you, our listeners would like to see us have as guests on the show, so reach out to us on social media or our Discord and let us know what ideas you have.

This week, Dust Storm and Godzilla T have a bit of alone time after the long string of guests on the show to talk about the latest book in the “Podtacular Book Club”, Halo: Smoke and Shadow. This is probably one of our most favorite books with all the different tie-ins from different parts of the Halo universe. We also have a new community spotlight with our favorites picked and another community poll; this time asking folks about their favorite Halo campaign.

Another week with another interview, this time with the hosts of Finish the Fight: A Halo Podcast. Jesse and Alex join us to talk about the process behind their research for their shows and what it’s like to search for all the nitty, gritty details they manage to dig up and share with the community. You can listen to their podcast on all major podcast services. Results for the Covenant vehicle poll are in and we have ourselves a new community update to cover. The Xbox Series X gets a bit of a heated debate on the show and as always, some of our own personal community highlights. We have also launched our Patreon, which you can find at https://podtacular.com/patreon.

Welcome back to another week of Halo news and yet another interview. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Community Spotlight and even longer for the last Canon Fodder, but both bring another wonderful curation of creative genius our community has and the announcement of a new Halo novel, Shadows of Reach. We also have Iowa and Nate from the Project Autumn team on the show to introduce us to their fan games and tell us more about what they’re working on. Wrapping up the show is another community poll, this time UNSC vehicles.

A surprise release means an impromptu surprise episode. We weren’t planning on doing a podcast this week, but with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary landing on PC, we’d figure we’d kill two moas with one hammer swing and talk about the release: improvements and outstanding issues looking to be resolved and introduce another one of our most recent additions to the Podtacular staff: AceofSpadesCard. We’ll return next week with the live show, our next poll and our special guests.

Welcome back to another “regular” episode as we don’t have any outside guests on the show, but we do have our most recent addition to the Podtacular staff, Writing Spartan on as a guest and discuss what his role is within the community. In addition to our normal updates on playlists and community musings, we discuss dual wielding: it’s implementation and whether it should make a return to Halo; and our “not-so-complete” weapon poll we posted last week. Catch the next poll, which will be Halo vehicles.

This week it’s just Dust Storm and Godzilla T behind the microphones as we not cover Halo: Retribution, not cover Halo: Shadow of Intent, but Dirt from Halo: Evolutions. Needless to day, we found after the fact that we had already discussed these books, so we had a change mid show. In addition to the story, we talk about the recently released Halo 5 concept art, latest community update and spotlight Waypoint articles, and other community musings. Next book we’ll read (and we’ve check this time) is Halo: Smoke and Shadow.

Another week and yet another interview here on the podcast mixed in with our regular show. Unfortunately the community spotlight was delayed, but there’s plenty more community content and events happening that were worthy of note. We’re please to have some of the folks from Corona Interactive to talk about Project: REBIRTH, a cinematic Halo fan project. As guests, we welcome SierraI07, Rythaze and RatDadJoe and they are kind enough to give us more details on what kind of a project they are trying to put together and have releasing later this year.

This year, we started our Streamer Showcase Saturday and we had the pleasure of highlighting RealLifeSpartan. We’ve been entertained by his personality and presentation we couldn’t not try to have him on the podcast, and he agreed! This special episode is learning more about the man behind the armor on screen: how he got involved with streaming Halo, what his hobbies are, what aquatic life he likes, and anything else we could fit into one hour. Give him a follow on Twitch and Twitter.

There’s no topic of the week for this week’s show as we were catching up on the numerous edits and fan project updates we didn’t get to last week. Fret not, there’s still a lot of good discussion from the latest community musings (we speak of course of thinks like the grappling hook), Halo updates and other community content. Have a topic you want us to cover? Have someone in mind we should interview? Have a funny, cool, amazing, interesting story to tell from a Halo experience? Come share them with us in our Discord server: https://podtacular.com/discord or send us an email: submissions@podtacular.com.

Welcome to our first guest appearance of 2020 and it’s fitting that we have the folks on from Halo Respawn on. Halo Respawn is a new community founded by Vetteking95 in an effort to help reunite and showcase the many different aspects and corners of the Halo community. Quite the undertaking to be sure, but for those who are familiar with Podtacular, you’ll be no stranger to this concept as we try to highlight the vastness of the community we know and love. Joining Vetteking95 from the Halo Respawn team is HUNGRYxB3AR and no stranger to the Podtacular community SOVTH as we take time to discuss what we think Halo Infinite might bring to the table, our hopes for a Halo Battle Royale (much to GT’s dismay) and what Halo Respawn is all about. You can find out more about Halo Respawn at https://www.halorespawn.com.

This week we asked the community how they would like to unlock items in Halo Infinite given the past examples we’ve seen in Halo and in the industry. With the latest progression-style system in MCC drumming up community discussion, there’s lots of opinions on the topic, but there at least seems to be a commonality among most listeners at least. It’s also been about five months since we’ve talked about the projects that are happening in the community so it’s time to dust off the news and cover… some of them. There’s been so many updates that we only had a chance to cover a handful, but not to fret, we’ll get to more soon including some interviews with the more recently publicized projects. As always, we cover the latest playlist and community updates straight from Halo Waypoint.

We’re still playing catch-up on community happenings over the past month, but we’re nicking away at it until we’re all caught up. This week includes last week’s Community Spotlight and this week’s Community Update, first of each for 2020. Responding to our topic of the week, we read your responses to what makes up your ideal campaign mission.